Before filming the scene, we had to film/record the news broadcast that appears on the TV screen as well as the radio broadcast. We listened to the the two broadcasts and noted down what was said in each as a script, which we gave to the actors before filming. Michael and I then made the 'PLUTONIUM THEFT ?' graphic that appears over the news broadcast in Serif DrawPlus and used the 'Picture in Picture' feature in iMovie to place the graphic over the clip. The clip was then colour graded by Tom and was exported as an MP4 file, ready for use later in the opening.
Tom recorded the audio for the radio broadcast and then Nathan processed the audio in the digital audio workstation Cubase 7.5, taking away the high and low frequencies to give the audio a thin, radio-like sound. The clicking noise from the microphone being turned on was then used as the sound for the radio turning on in the remake.
This is the unaltered version of the radio voice
The noise of the TV being turned on was taken from a royalty free YouTube sound effect video.
Set Design
Before shooting the remake, we had to ensure that the mise-en-scene was as close as possible to the actual film. In order to do this, we took as many clocks as we could find and hung them up on Tom's garage wall, taking care to place the first higher up than the others, as is in the original film.
We then loaded up the news broadcast we had filmed earlier on Windows Media Player and connected the laptop to a TV via HDMI cable, as shown above.
The newspaper and picture frame were placed and then the radio, coffee machine and bedsheets were also put into position. To make the set look more like the very messy mise-en-scene in the film, we scrunched up some newspaper and threw the pages around the set, alongside some empty cups and bottles.
Filming
When remaking the Back To The Future opening title sequence, we took into account the smoothness of the shot and so we decided to use an 'eimo Glidecam' in order to achieve it. We all had several attempts at filming the shot:
Nathan then pressed the play button on Windows Media Player when Tom had moved to the point where the TV was coming into frame.
Once we had all of the shots filmed, we selected the smoothest one and moved on to editing.
Post
Michael recreated the 1985 Universal logo in Serif DrawPlus. Meanwhile, Nathan recreated the Back To The Future logo, also in Serif DrawPlus.
Once the logos and the shot had been cut together, the audio of the shot was removed as it had the news broadcast audio in it at a very low quality. Nathan and Tom then added the audio from the recorded news broadcast file and synced it with the TV in the shot.
Then the titles were added by Tom, who had previously found out which font was used in the original film.
Nathan and Michael then added the altered radio sound to the shot, timing it so that it would end just before the news broadcast begins and also adding a long fade out to the audio, as is in the original film.
Nathan then selected four clocks from his home and close-mic'd them in order to get as high quality foley as possible. A mic stand was used to hold the microphone directly above the clocks and record the audio in as high a volume as possible.
The digital audio workstation Logic Pro was used to overdub the recordings. Nathan used a Shure SM58 microphone running from an XLR cable to a Focusrite Sapphire 6 USB audio interface in order to record the audio.
Once the audio had been recorded, each track was duplicated, processed in a slightly different way and then slightly displaced in order to achieve the sound of numerous different clocks.
This is the final clock sound
Once this had been completed, the audio was added to the film and a long fade out was added, as is in the original film.
Nathan
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